Marina Amaral Explained
Marina Amaral (born in 1994) is a Brazilian artist known for her colorizations of historical black and white photographs.
Work
A self-taught artist, she was an international relations student in college,[2] but dropped out in April 2015 to pursue art full-time.[3] [4]
Amaral's creative process involves adding color to black and white photographs using Photoshop, following careful historical research to determine the colors of each object pictured.[1] [5] Amaral describes what she does as providing a "second perspective" as the pictures with color convey images that do not seem too far removed from the contemporaneous viewer.[6] [7] [8] Her process of colorizing a photo can take as little as an hour or more than a month to complete.[9] [4] [10] [11] Each colorized photo may include hundreds of layers.[12]
In 2017, Amaral was the illustrator for historian Dan Jones' book, The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850–1960.[13] [14]
In 2018 Amaral colorized twenty archival photos of Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners, under the project title Faces of Auschwitz.[15] [16] [17] The project was a collaboration with the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum.[18]
Personal life
In 2020, Amaral was revealed to be on the autism spectrum.[19]
Notes and References
- Web site: Daily Record. Fresh light shed on historic black and white photos as artist transforms iconic images of war. Jenny. Morrison. 21 August 2016.
- Web site: No Color Photos of Jazz Singer Mildred Bailey Existed... Until Now. Dan Jones,Marina. Amaral. Smithsonian.
- Web site: Brazilian artist makes history feel like the present with beautiful colorized photos. Dami. Lee. 29 August 2016. The Verge.
- Web site: Las fascinantes imágenes históricas de una artista que colorea nuestras memorias. BBC Mundo. Rafael. Barifouse. 24 September 2016. es.
- News: Meet Marina Amaral a historical colourist. History TV. 2018-01-20. en.
- Web site: Marina Amaral, Coloring History. 15 September 2016. Lamono magazine.
- Web site: Pictures of the Second World War that look like they were taken yesterday. Neil. Armstrong. 23 October 2016. The Daily Telegraph.
- Web site: Artista colore fotografias antigas em P&B e resultado é impressionante. catracalivre.com.br. 3 August 2016. pt.
- Travel back in time with the master of photo colorization. Laura. Mallonee. 25 August 2016. Wired.
- Web site: Mineira Marina Amaral resgata cenas históricas ao colorir fotografias em pb. Daigo. Oliva. 4 September 2016. Folha de São Paulo.
- Web site: Historic moments brought brilliantly to life as artist uses Photoshop skills to turn iconic black-and-white photos into colour. Joshua. Taylor. 24 January 2017. Daily Mirror.
- News: These historical black-and-white photos have been transformed into colour masterpieces by a 21-year-old Brazilian artist. Kanter. Jake. 2017-03-18. Business Insider. 2018-01-20. en.
- Web site: See iconic black and white photos brought into colour before your very eyes. 19 August 2018. Evening Standard.
- News: Review: The Colour of Time: A New History of the World 1850-1960 by Dan Jones and Marina Amaral — the past in full colour. Gerard. DeGroot. 4 August 2018. www.thetimes.co.uk.
- Web site: Auschwitz Photographs Hidden from the Nazis Are Given New Life in Color. Laura. Mallonee. 26 November 2018. Artsy.
- Web site: Auschwitz color photo: 'A 14-year-old girl, not just a statistic' - DW - 26.03.2018. DW.COM.
- Web site: Colorized picture of Nazi victim pulls at heartstrings of Twitter users - World News - Jerusalem Post. www.jpost.com. 21 March 2018 .
- Web site: 75 ans après, un émouvant portrait colorisé d'une adolescente morte à Auschwitz. 24 March 2018 . www.leparisien.fr/.
- Web site: "Minha vida fez sentido", diz Marina Amaral ao descobrir autismo VEJA. 2020-08-07. veja.abril.com.br.
